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Music Business and Industry

This guide provides a list of useful resources for Music Business and Music Technology. Please note: the items listed here are selected resources that may be used as reference sources or starting points for research and are not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography. Pages are arranged according to material type and direct links have been provided for those items available in the University of Miami Libraries' catalog.

Subject Specialist

Doris Jui

Amy Strickland

Academic OnefileAcademic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. Offers extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

ArticleFirstArticleFirst is a daily updated multidisciplinary index and abstracting service covering articles in academic periodicals.

Arts and Humanities Citation IndexInternational coverage of more than 1,150 leading arts and humanities journals as well as selective coverage from leading science and social sciences journals.

Google Scholar @ UMSearch Google Scholar with direct links to University of Miami Library Resources. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
If you are within the UM campus or, if from Scholar Preferences you select the University of Miami Libraries, your Google Scholar results will include direct links to items available at UM. If this information is in a subscription database, you will be prompted to log in with your CaneID username and password.

Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)Wilson Humanities Full-Text indexes more than 300 key humanities journals. Abstracts of journal articles are included from the spring of 1994; selected full-text coverage began in January 1995.

JSTORJSTOR provides digital versions of the backfiles of major scholarly journals. Primarily an archival collection, JSTOR does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of content for most titles.

Nexis UniNexis Uni? features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®?including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790?with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

AES Electronic LibraryContains all of the Audio Engineering Society papers from the journal, conventions, and conferences, providing access to over 16,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day.,
Includes AES Publications Convention Preprints Timely technical papers, reproduced directly from the manuscripts of presentations given at recent AES conventions. Anthologies Renowned series of collected papers of archival quality reprinted from the AES Journal including: loudspeakers, disk recording, microphones, sound reinforcement, and time delay spectrometry. Collected papers from the highly regarded AES international conferences, each devoted to a specific topic. AES Standards, Drafts, and Information Documents Internationally approved documents developed under the auspices of the AES Standards Committee and its working groups. Directory of Educational Programs A comprehensive international guide to educational programs in audio.

Selected Music Industry Books

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This is a small selection of books the library has about the music industry.

Online Reference

AllMusic.comCovering all genres and styles of music, All Music provides in depth details about artists including biographies, album and song reviews, style descriptions, composition descriptions, and AMG ratings and picks.

Britannica OnlineBritannica Online includes the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the 10th ed. of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Britannica's Internet Guide, and The World Guide with maps, country information, and news

Musical America.comMusical America is an international directory for the performing arts, used by concert facilities, classical performers, artists, managers and music festivals.
Entries include narrative reviews of the past year in music and dance, along with over 700 pages of listings and tables. Also offers a prestigious annual awards program for Musician of the Year, as well as awards for the year's top composer, conductor, instrumentalist and vocalist.

Oxford Music OnlineIncludes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and the Oxford Companion to Music.

Web Resources for Music Business and Technology

Academic Charts OnlineOver 60 years of music charts licensed from Billboard. Requires login with 'Cane ID and password.

Billboard EventsProvides information about upcoming music business conferences and forums.